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posted by CoolHand on Sunday December 13 2015, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly

CBS reports that hot on the heels of its campaign against ISIS, the shadowy hackers' collective known as Anonymous is going after a new target: Donald Trump. The latest Anonymous operation -- #OpTrump -- was announced in a YouTube video featuring a masked activist claiming to speak for the group. In a computer-generated voice, he takes aim at Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, claiming "This is what ISIS wants." He goes on to say that "the more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims," the more ISIS will be able to recruit sympathizers. The video concludes with Anonymous' now-familiar threat: "You have been warned, Mr. Donald Trump. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. Expect us."

After a video message was posted, the website of Trump Tower in New York City went down for at least an hour. However the campaign didn't appear to have much success. Despite the group's apparent distributed-denial-of-service attack, which aimed to take down a web server by flooding it with fake traffic, the Trump Tower website was up and running by 11 a.m. and the alleged damage might not have been apparent, to visitors to the page, because a cached version of Trump's site was programmed to hold the fort in the event of an attack or maintenance issues. Gabriella Coleman, who studies hackers and online activism as the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, in Montreal, told CBS News it's no surprise that Anonymous would find Trump a juicy target. "He's the biggest bully and the only other bully that's bigger is possibly trolls and Anonymous," says Coleman. "Anonymous isn't necessarily going to take down his campaign, per se, but they could embarrass him."


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 13 2015, @04:13AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday December 13 2015, @04:13AM (#275677) Homepage

    It didn't succeed because it was only the ultra-moralfag contingent of Anonymous that attacked the website.

    If you want to get the full wrath of Anonymous you'd have to kick a puppy or hurt a kitten or something. Like me, Anonymous seems to value the lives of animals more than they do the lives of humans.

       

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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 13 2015, @07:22AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 13 2015, @07:22AM (#275716) Journal

    "the ultra-moralfag contingent of Anonymous"

    Does that equate to Social Justice Warriors? OH MY GOD!! ANONYMOUS HAS BEEN INFILTRATED!!

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday December 13 2015, @02:11PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 13 2015, @02:11PM (#275763)

    he ultra-moralfag contingent of Anonymous

    It remains to be proven to be more than one person.

    There's one craptastic short youtube video, gigatons of leftie media rabble rousing support of that one video, and other than that, nothing?

    By analogy, lets say I made one of my emacs superiority rants here on SN and then dozens of billion dollar media companies in a concerted pre-planned effort (hmm, interesting story in itself) spammed the whole world with the narrative message that "SN has begun a new campaign of vi hatred".

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by cngn on Monday December 14 2015, @12:47AM

    by cngn (1609) on Monday December 14 2015, @12:47AM (#275926)

    I'll concur, I've given up on the Human Race, animals are a better cause.